The Lying Stones of Marrakech

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| name = The Lying Stones of Marrakech

| author = Stephen Jay Gould

| publisher = Harmony Books

| release_date = April 11, 2000

| media_type = Print (hardcover and paperback)

| pages = 384

| isbn = 0-609-60142-3

| dewey = 508 21

| congress = QH45.5 .G74 2000

| oclc = 59557303

| preceded_by = Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

| followed_by = I Have Landed

}}The Lying Stones of Marrakech (2000) is the ninth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist, Stephen Jay Gould.{{Cite news |last=Gee |first=Henry |date=25 May 2000 |title=The Lying Stones of Marrakech (Book Review) (Undetermined) |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=brd&AN=506239388&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=2024-12-22 |work=Nature |page=397 |via=EBSCOhost |volume=405 |issue=6785}}{{Cite news |last=Sapp |first=Gregg |date=2000 |title=The Lying Stones of Marrakech (Book Review) |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=2807919&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=2024-12-22 |work=Library Journal |via=EBSCOhost}}

The essays were culled from his monthly column "The View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for nearly 30 years. The book deals with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution and its teaching, science biography, probability, and iconoclasm.